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Internal Peripherals Connectors
Enhanced IDE, Floppy Connectors
The mainboard features one 40-pin dual-channel IDE device connectors (IDE1)
providing support for up to two IDE devices, such as CD-ROM and Hard Disk
Drives (H.D.D.). This mainboard also includes one 34-pin floppy disk control-
ler (FDC) to accommodate the Floppy Disk Drive (FDD). Moreover, this
mainboard comes with one 80-pin ATA 100/66/33 ribbon cable to connect
to IDE H.D.D. and one 34-pin ribbon cable for F.D.D. connection.
Serial ATA Connectors
The Serial ATA is an enolutionary replacement for the Parallel ATA physical
storge interface. Serial ATA is scalable and will allow future enhancements to
the computing platform. The Serial ATA interface supports data transfer rates
up to 150MB/s.
Important: Ribbon
cables are directional,
therefore, make sure to
always connect with the
red cable stripe on the
same side as pin #1 of the
IDE1 connector on the
mainboard.
C1
C2
FD
D
1
1
IDE1
1
SATA1~4
